more at http://quickfound.net
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road
Road construction requires the creation of a continuous right-of-way, overcoming geographic obstacles and having grades low enough to permit vehicle or foot travel. and may be required to meet standards set by law or official guidelines. The process is often begun with the removal of earth and rock by digging or blasting, construction of embankments, bridges and tunnels, and removal of vegetation (this may involve deforestation) and followed by the laying of pavement material. A variety of road building equipment is employed in road building.
After design, approval, planning, legal and environmental considerations have been addressed alignment of the road is set out by a surveyor. The radii and gradient are designed and staked out to best suit the natural ground levels and minimize the amount of cut and fill. Great care is taken to preserve reference Benchmarks.
Roads are designed and built for primary use by vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Storm drainage and environmental considerations are a major concern. Erosion and sediment controls are constructed to prevent detrimental effects. Drainage lines are laid with sealed joints in the road easement with runoff coefficients and characteristics adequate for the land zoning and storm water system. Drainage systems must be capable of carrying the ultimate design flow from the upstream catchment with approval for the outfall from the appropriate authority to a watercourse, creek, river or the sea for drainage discharge.
A borrow pit (source for obtaining fill, gravel, and rock) and a water source should be located near or in reasonable distance to the road construction site. Approval from local authorities may be required to draw water or for working (crushing and screening) of materials for construction needs. The top soil and vegetation is removed from the borrow pit and stockpiled for subsequent rehabilitation of the extraction area. Side slopes in the excavation area not steeper than one vertical to two horizontal for safety reasons.
Old road surfaces, fences, and buildings may need to be removed before construction can begin...
Processes during earthwork include excavation, removal of material to spoil, filling, compacting, construction and trimming. If rock or other unsuitable material is discovered it is removed, moisture content is managed and replaced with standard fill compacted to meet the design requirements (generally 90-95% relative compaction). blasting is not frequently used to excavate the road bed as the intact rock structure forms an ideal road base. When a depression must be filled to come up to the road grade the native bed is compacted after the topsoil has been removed. The fill is made by the "compacted layer method" where a layer of fill is spread then compacted to specifications, the process is repeated until the desired grade is reached.
General fill material should be free of organics, meet minimum California bearing ratio (CBR) results and have a low plasticity index. The lower fill generally comprises sand or a sand-rich mixture with fine gravel, which acts as an inhibitor to the growth of plants or other vegetable matter. The compacted fill also serves as lower-stratum drainage. Select second fill (sieved) should be composed of gravel, decomposed rock or broken rock below a specified Particle size and be free of large lumps of clay. Sand clay fill may also be used. The road bed must be "proof rolled" after each layer of fill is compacted. If a roller passes over an area without creating visible deformation or spring the section is deemed to comply.
Geosynthetics such as geotextiles, geogrids and geocells are frequently used in the various pavement layers to improve road quality...
The completed road way is finished by paving or left with a gravel or other natural surface...

published:17 Dec 2014

views:58902

This video is a preview of what could be part of a future osu!museum, financed by the huge amount of money received from supporter (after buying enough jets of course).
The man you see in this video is none other than Daniel Heriberht, most commonly recognized by his pseudonym "peppus".
After creating osu! alpha 0.1 the press didn't believe in his abnormal skills, so he decided to video-tape a liveplay using a typewriter and the first prototype of osu!tablet, which was 100% made out of paper.
With the arrival of WW2 he was forced to stop playing, this was the first occurrence of somebody having to quit because of the army.
He luckily managed to survive after becoming very good friends with Hitler, who decided to then join his game by the name of "Loctavus".
This video is also what we might call the oldest "choke" ever recorded, even though at the time it was referred to as "ending goof".
-
TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/spazza17
Idea based on this: https://youtu.be/OkMTqtOLXO0
Map: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/316390

more at http://quickfound.net
"On disposal of garbage before and after the development of incinerators." Silent. Marketing film for the Nye Odorless Crematory Co., Macon, Georgia. ShowsAtlantic City, New Jersey incinerator construction.
Ad for Nye incinerators in "Public Works", 1922
https://books.google.com/books?id=vHNKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA42&ots=fbsWdrSN8G&dq=nye%20incinerator&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q=nye%20incinerator&f=false
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas, and heat. The ash is mostly formed by the inorganic constituents of the waste, and may take the form of solid lumps or particulates carried by the flue gas. The flue gases must be cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere. In some cases, the heat generated by incineration can be used to generate electric power.
Incineration with energy recovery is one of several waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion. While incineration and gasification technologies are similar in principle, the energy product from incineration is high-temperature heat whereas combustible gas is often the main energy product from gasification. Incineration and gasification may also be implemented without energy and materials recovery.
In several countries, there are still concerns from experts and local communities about the environmental impact of incinerators (see arguments against incineration).
In some countries, incinerators built just a few decades ago often did not include a materials separation to remove hazardous, bulky or recyclable materials before combustion. These facilities tended to risk the health of the plant workers and the local environment due to inadequate levels of gas cleaning and combustion process control. Most of these facilities did not generate electricity.
Incinerators reduce the solid mass of the original waste by 80–85% and the volume (already compressed somewhat in garbage trucks) by 95–96%, depending on composition and degree of recovery of materials such as metals from the ash for recycling. This means that while incineration does not completely replace landfilling, it significantly reduces the necessary volume for disposal. Garbage trucks often reduce the volume of waste in a built-in compressor before delivery to the incinerator. Alternatively, at landfills, the volume of the uncompressed garbage can be reduced by approximately 70% by using a stationary steel compressor, albeit with a significant energy cost. In many countries, simpler waste compaction is a common practice for compaction at landfills.
Incineration has particularly strong benefits for the treatment of certain waste types in niche areas such as clinical wastes and certain hazardous wastes where pathogens and toxins can be destroyed by high temperatures. Examples include chemical multi-product plants with diverse toxic or very toxic wastewater streams, which cannot be routed to a conventional wastewater treatment plant.
Waste combustion is particularly popular in countries such as Japan where land is a scarce resource. Denmark and Sweden have been leaders in using the energy generated from incineration for more than a century, in localised combined heat and power facilities supporting district heating schemes. In 2005, waste incineration produced 4.8% of the electricity consumption and 13.7% of the total domestic heat consumption in Denmark. A number of other European countries rely heavily on incineration for handling municipal waste, in particular Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and France...
The first UK incinerators for waste disposal were built in Nottingham by Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd. in 1874 to a design patented by Albert Fryer. They were originally known as destructors.
The first US incinerator was built in 1885 on Governors Island in New York, NY.
The first facility in the Czech Republic was built in 1905 in Brno...

published:17 Feb 2015

views:4774

Edited travelogue with narrative titles
"We said farewell to India May 9th when the SS Edevana sailed from Calcutta for Rangoon, Burma"
"Our faithful travel-bearer of the past ten weeks, Dil Mohammed, bedecked us with flowers when the parting came."
Kate wearing a garland on deck with Arthur.
People on shore, Sikh gentleman waving goodbye
Boats at waterfront
"Busy Calcutta waterfront"
Various sorts of boats
"Strange were the craft sighted as the 'Edevana' slowly made her way down the muddy Hoogly River"
HooghlyRiver
"No Diesels or steam engines propel these river craft which the natives 'pole' and 'sweep' along the Hoogly"
Five workers poling a boat, a second shot in which the current moves them swiftly.
"The 'Edvana' carried a large number of native deck passengers"
Pan of the boat deck with passengers.
"Out at sea Kate and Mr. CharlesFrancis de Ganahl enjoy deck tennis"
Tennis on-board ship, overexposed.
Steamer from a distance.
Kate with the captain

. . . a rather rare antique Irish whisky from the 1930s' or earlier ! . . . and a most engaging experience ! Bit of a risk but worth the punt !
To comply with Google Adsense policy this video is an independent non-profit review and is not selling or linking to a site that sells the product being reviewed.

published:17 Mar 2013

views:10051

more at http://quickfound.net
" Cow walking, with effect appearing to "scratch" her motion in forward and reverse
Cow seen through squares of wire fence, appearing to elongate and shorten as she walks through. Cow walking, seen through mirrored lenses so she appears to slide into nothingness and then reemerge." Inkwell Studios - FilmCirculation Corp. "Alfred Weiss presents...". Dialogue and narration by Allan McDonald.
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion
Slow motion (commonly abbreviated as slowmo) is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was invented by the Austrian priest August Musger.
Typically this style is achieved when each film frame is captured at a rate much faster than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving more slowly. A term for creating slow motion film is overcranking which refers to hand cranking an early camera at a faster rate than normal (i.e. faster than 24 frames per second). Slow motion can also be achieved by playing normally recorded footage at a slower speed. This technique is more often applied to video subjected to instant replay, than to film. A third technique that is becoming common using current computer software post-processing (with programs like Twixtor) is to fabricate digitally interpolated frames to smoothly transition between the frames that were actually shot. Motion can be slowed further by combining techniques, interpolating between overcranked frames. The traditional method for achieving super-slow motion is through high-speed photography, a more sophisticated technique that uses specialized equipment to record fast phenomena, usually for scientific applications.
Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjects of slow motion include:
- Athletic activities of all kinds, to demonstrate skill and style.
- To recapture a key moment in an athletic game, typically shown as a replay.
- Natural phenomena, such as a drop of water hitting a glass.
Slow motion can also be used for artistic effect, to create a romantic or suspenseful aura or to stress a moment in time. Vsevolod Pudovkin, for instance, used slow motion in a suicide scene in The Deserter, in which a man jumping into a river seems sucked down by the slowly splashing waves. Another example is Face/Off, in which John Woo used the same technique in the movements of a flock of flying pigeons. The Matrix made a distinct success in applying the effect into action scenes through the use of multiple cameras, as well as mixing slow-motion with live action in other scenes. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was a pioneer using this technique in his 1954 movieSeven Samurai. American director Sam Peckinpah was another classic lover of the use of slow motion. The technique is especially associated with explosion effect shots and underwater footage.
The opposite of slow motion is fast motion. Cinematographers refer to fast motion as undercranking since it was originally achieved by cranking a handcranked camera slower than normal. It is often used for comic effect, time lapse or occasional stylistic effect.
The concept of slow motion may have existed before the invention of the motion picture: the Japanese theatrical form Noh employs very slow movements...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius. Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen or bullocks) (pulling carts, plows and the like). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some countries, such as India, cattle are sacred. From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, an estimated 1.3 billion cattle are in the world today. In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have a fully mapped genome...

Origin of the name "Empire State"

The U.S. State of New York has been known by many nicknames, most notably as the Empire State, adopted as late as the 19thcentury. This nickname has been incorporated into the names of several state buildings and events, and is commonly believed to refer to the state's wealth and resources. However, the origin of the term remains unclear.

There are several theories on the origin of the name. Two of them involve George Washington, one credits aggressive trade routes, and another associates the nickname with New York exceeding Virginia in population. None has been proven. One commonly accepted tale says that, when Washington was given a full map of New York prior to the Battle of New York, he remarked on New York's natural geographic advantages, proclaiming New York the "Seat of an Empire".

The origin of the term has puzzled many historians; as American writer Paul Eldridge put it, "Who was the merry wag who crowned the State... [as the Empire State]? New York would certainly raise a monument to his memory, but he made his grandiose gesture and vanished forever."

Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. By 2014 census estimates, the New York City metropolitan region remains by a significant margin the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.1million residents) and the Combined Statistical Area (23.6million residents). In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly US$1.39trillion, while in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and behind the GDP of only twelve and eleven countries, respectively.

Empire (newspaper)

The Empire was a newspaper published in Sydney, Australia. It was published from 28 December 1850 to 14 February 1875, except for the period from 28 August 1858 to 23 May 1859, when publication was suspended. It was later absorbed by The Evening News.

History

Henry Parkes founded the Empire and was its editor/proprietor until the business failed in August 1858. He made it "a newspaper destined to be the chief organ of mid-century liberalism and to serve as the rallying and reconciliation point for the sharpest radical and liberal minds of the day".

The paper was bought by Samuel Bennett and William Hanson and resumed publication in May 1859 with the promise that "The Empire … will continue under the new management to advocate the same great principles by which it has hitherto been distinguished". In 1875 labour difficulties forced Bennett to merge the Empire with another of his papers, the Evening News.The Evening News continued to be published until 1931 at which point it was closed by Associated Newspapers, who had acquired most Sydney newspaper titles by that time.

Maintenance of Roads circa 1930 US Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Public Roads

Maintenance of Roads circa 1930 US Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Public Roads

Maintenance of Roads circa 1930 US Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Public Roads

more at http://quickfound.net
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road
Road construction requires the creation of a continuous right-of-way, overcoming geographic obstacles and having grades low enough to permit vehicle or foot travel. and may be required to meet standards set by law or official guidelines. The process is often begun with the removal of earth and rock by digging or blasting, construction of embankments, bridges and tunnels, and removal of vegetation (this may involve deforestation) and followed by the laying of pavement material. A variety of road building equipment is employed in road building.
After design, approval, planning, legal and environmental considerations have been addressed alignment of the road is set out by a surveyor. The radii and gradient are designed and staked out to best suit the natural ground levels and minimize the amount of cut and fill. Great care is taken to preserve reference Benchmarks.
Roads are designed and built for primary use by vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Storm drainage and environmental considerations are a major concern. Erosion and sediment controls are constructed to prevent detrimental effects. Drainage lines are laid with sealed joints in the road easement with runoff coefficients and characteristics adequate for the land zoning and storm water system. Drainage systems must be capable of carrying the ultimate design flow from the upstream catchment with approval for the outfall from the appropriate authority to a watercourse, creek, river or the sea for drainage discharge.
A borrow pit (source for obtaining fill, gravel, and rock) and a water source should be located near or in reasonable distance to the road construction site. Approval from local authorities may be required to draw water or for working (crushing and screening) of materials for construction needs. The top soil and vegetation is removed from the borrow pit and stockpiled for subsequent rehabilitation of the extraction area. Side slopes in the excavation area not steeper than one vertical to two horizontal for safety reasons.
Old road surfaces, fences, and buildings may need to be removed before construction can begin...
Processes during earthwork include excavation, removal of material to spoil, filling, compacting, construction and trimming. If rock or other unsuitable material is discovered it is removed, moisture content is managed and replaced with standard fill compacted to meet the design requirements (generally 90-95% relative compaction). blasting is not frequently used to excavate the road bed as the intact rock structure forms an ideal road base. When a depression must be filled to come up to the road grade the native bed is compacted after the topsoil has been removed. The fill is made by the "compacted layer method" where a layer of fill is spread then compacted to specifications, the process is repeated until the desired grade is reached.
General fill material should be free of organics, meet minimum California bearing ratio (CBR) results and have a low plasticity index. The lower fill generally comprises sand or a sand-rich mixture with fine gravel, which acts as an inhibitor to the growth of plants or other vegetable matter. The compacted fill also serves as lower-stratum drainage. Select second fill (sieved) should be composed of gravel, decomposed rock or broken rock below a specified Particle size and be free of large lumps of clay. Sand clay fill may also be used. The road bed must be "proof rolled" after each layer of fill is compacted. If a roller passes over an area without creating visible deformation or spring the section is deemed to comply.
Geosynthetics such as geotextiles, geogrids and geocells are frequently used in the various pavement layers to improve road quality...
The completed road way is finished by paving or left with a gravel or other natural surface...

2:44

The oldest osu! liveplay footage (circa 1930)

The oldest osu! liveplay footage (circa 1930)

The oldest osu! liveplay footage (circa 1930)

This video is a preview of what could be part of a future osu!museum, financed by the huge amount of money received from supporter (after buying enough jets of course).
The man you see in this video is none other than Daniel Heriberht, most commonly recognized by his pseudonym "peppus".
After creating osu! alpha 0.1 the press didn't believe in his abnormal skills, so he decided to video-tape a liveplay using a typewriter and the first prototype of osu!tablet, which was 100% made out of paper.
With the arrival of WW2 he was forced to stop playing, this was the first occurrence of somebody having to quit because of the army.
He luckily managed to survive after becoming very good friends with Hitler, who decided to then join his game by the name of "Loctavus".
This video is also what we might call the oldest "choke" ever recorded, even though at the time it was referred to as "ending goof".
-
TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/spazza17
Idea based on this: https://youtu.be/OkMTqtOLXO0
Map: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/316390

10:55

Empire State Building Construction: "Making A Skyscraper" circa 1930 11min

Empire State Building Construction: "Making A Skyscraper" circa 1930 11min

Empire State Building Construction: "Making A Skyscraper" circa 1930 11min

more at http://quickfound.net
"On disposal of garbage before and after the development of incinerators." Silent. Marketing film for the Nye Odorless Crematory Co., Macon, Georgia. ShowsAtlantic City, New Jersey incinerator construction.
Ad for Nye incinerators in "Public Works", 1922
https://books.google.com/books?id=vHNKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA42&ots=fbsWdrSN8G&dq=nye%20incinerator&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q=nye%20incinerator&f=false
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas, and heat. The ash is mostly formed by the inorganic constituents of the waste, and may take the form of solid lumps or particulates carried by the flue gas. The flue gases must be cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere. In some cases, the heat generated by incineration can be used to generate electric power.
Incineration with energy recovery is one of several waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion. While incineration and gasification technologies are similar in principle, the energy product from incineration is high-temperature heat whereas combustible gas is often the main energy product from gasification. Incineration and gasification may also be implemented without energy and materials recovery.
In several countries, there are still concerns from experts and local communities about the environmental impact of incinerators (see arguments against incineration).
In some countries, incinerators built just a few decades ago often did not include a materials separation to remove hazardous, bulky or recyclable materials before combustion. These facilities tended to risk the health of the plant workers and the local environment due to inadequate levels of gas cleaning and combustion process control. Most of these facilities did not generate electricity.
Incinerators reduce the solid mass of the original waste by 80–85% and the volume (already compressed somewhat in garbage trucks) by 95–96%, depending on composition and degree of recovery of materials such as metals from the ash for recycling. This means that while incineration does not completely replace landfilling, it significantly reduces the necessary volume for disposal. Garbage trucks often reduce the volume of waste in a built-in compressor before delivery to the incinerator. Alternatively, at landfills, the volume of the uncompressed garbage can be reduced by approximately 70% by using a stationary steel compressor, albeit with a significant energy cost. In many countries, simpler waste compaction is a common practice for compaction at landfills.
Incineration has particularly strong benefits for the treatment of certain waste types in niche areas such as clinical wastes and certain hazardous wastes where pathogens and toxins can be destroyed by high temperatures. Examples include chemical multi-product plants with diverse toxic or very toxic wastewater streams, which cannot be routed to a conventional wastewater treatment plant.
Waste combustion is particularly popular in countries such as Japan where land is a scarce resource. Denmark and Sweden have been leaders in using the energy generated from incineration for more than a century, in localised combined heat and power facilities supporting district heating schemes. In 2005, waste incineration produced 4.8% of the electricity consumption and 13.7% of the total domestic heat consumption in Denmark. A number of other European countries rely heavily on incineration for handling municipal waste, in particular Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and France...
The first UK incinerators for waste disposal were built in Nottingham by Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd. in 1874 to a design patented by Albert Fryer. They were originally known as destructors.
The first US incinerator was built in 1885 on Governors Island in New York, NY.
The first facility in the Czech Republic was built in 1905 in Brno...

8:10

India and Burma circa 1930

India and Burma circa 1930

India and Burma circa 1930

Edited travelogue with narrative titles
"We said farewell to India May 9th when the SS Edevana sailed from Calcutta for Rangoon, Burma"
"Our faithful travel-bearer of the past ten weeks, Dil Mohammed, bedecked us with flowers when the parting came."
Kate wearing a garland on deck with Arthur.
People on shore, Sikh gentleman waving goodbye
Boats at waterfront
"Busy Calcutta waterfront"
Various sorts of boats
"Strange were the craft sighted as the 'Edevana' slowly made her way down the muddy Hoogly River"
HooghlyRiver
"No Diesels or steam engines propel these river craft which the natives 'pole' and 'sweep' along the Hoogly"
Five workers poling a boat, a second shot in which the current moves them swiftly.
"The 'Edvana' carried a large number of native deck passengers"
Pan of the boat deck with passengers.
"Out at sea Kate and Mr. CharlesFrancis de Ganahl enjoy deck tennis"
Tennis on-board ship, overexposed.
Steamer from a distance.
Kate with the captain

Original Vintage Bicycle Stunt Men Circa 1930

whisky review 349 - Dunvilles VR Irish Whisky (circa 1930)

. . . a rather rare antique Irish whisky from the 1930s' or earlier ! . . . and a most engaging experience ! Bit of a risk but worth the punt !
To comply with Google Adsense policy this video is an independent non-profit review and is not selling or linking to a site that sells the product being reviewed.

more at http://quickfound.net
" Cow walking, with effect appearing to "scratch" her motion in forward and reverse
Cow seen through squares of wire fence, appearing to elongate and shorten as she walks through. Cow walking, seen through mirrored lenses so she appears to slide into nothingness and then reemerge." Inkwell Studios - FilmCirculation Corp. "Alfred Weiss presents...". Dialogue and narration by Allan McDonald.
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion
Slow motion (commonly abbreviated as slowmo) is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was invented by the Austrian priest August Musger.
Typically this style is achieved when each film frame is captured at a rate much faster than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving more slowly. A term for creating slow motion film is overcranking which refers to hand cranking an early camera at a faster rate than normal (i.e. faster than 24 frames per second). Slow motion can also be achieved by playing normally recorded footage at a slower speed. This technique is more often applied to video subjected to instant replay, than to film. A third technique that is becoming common using current computer software post-processing (with programs like Twixtor) is to fabricate digitally interpolated frames to smoothly transition between the frames that were actually shot. Motion can be slowed further by combining techniques, interpolating between overcranked frames. The traditional method for achieving super-slow motion is through high-speed photography, a more sophisticated technique that uses specialized equipment to record fast phenomena, usually for scientific applications.
Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjects of slow motion include:
- Athletic activities of all kinds, to demonstrate skill and style.
- To recapture a key moment in an athletic game, typically shown as a replay.
- Natural phenomena, such as a drop of water hitting a glass.
Slow motion can also be used for artistic effect, to create a romantic or suspenseful aura or to stress a moment in time. Vsevolod Pudovkin, for instance, used slow motion in a suicide scene in The Deserter, in which a man jumping into a river seems sucked down by the slowly splashing waves. Another example is Face/Off, in which John Woo used the same technique in the movements of a flock of flying pigeons. The Matrix made a distinct success in applying the effect into action scenes through the use of multiple cameras, as well as mixing slow-motion with live action in other scenes. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was a pioneer using this technique in his 1954 movieSeven Samurai. American director Sam Peckinpah was another classic lover of the use of slow motion. The technique is especially associated with explosion effect shots and underwater footage.
The opposite of slow motion is fast motion. Cinematographers refer to fast motion as undercranking since it was originally achieved by cranking a handcranked camera slower than normal. It is often used for comic effect, time lapse or occasional stylistic effect.
The concept of slow motion may have existed before the invention of the motion picture: the Japanese theatrical form Noh employs very slow movements...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius. Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen or bullocks) (pulling carts, plows and the like). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some countries, such as India, cattle are sacred. From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, an estimated 1.3 billion cattle are in the world today. In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have a fully mapped genome...

Maintenance of Roads circa 1930 US Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Public Roads

more at http://quickfound.net
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road
Road construction requires the creation of a continuous right-of-way, overcoming geographic obstacles and having grades low enough to permit vehicle or foot travel. and may be required to meet standards set by law or official guidelines. The process is often begun with the removal of earth and rock by digging or blasting, co...

published: 17 Dec 2014

The oldest osu! liveplay footage (circa 1930)

This video is a preview of what could be part of a future osu!museum, financed by the huge amount of money received from supporter (after buying enough jets of course).
The man you see in this video is none other than Daniel Heriberht, most commonly recognized by his pseudonym "peppus".
After creating osu! alpha 0.1 the press didn't believe in his abnormal skills, so he decided to video-tape a liveplay using a typewriter and the first prototype of osu!tablet, which was 100% made out of paper.
With the arrival of WW2 he was forced to stop playing, this was the first occurrence of somebody having to quit because of the army.
He luckily managed to survive after becoming very good friends with Hitler, who decided to then join his game by the name of "Loctavus".
This video is also what we mi...

published: 02 Jan 2017

Empire State Building Construction: "Making A Skyscraper" circa 1930 11min

Bali old video 7: circa 1930 Bali by Miguel Covarrubias

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"On disposal of garbage before and after the development of incinerators." Silent. Marketing film for the Nye Odorless Crematory Co., Macon, Georgia. ShowsAtlantic City, New Jersey incinerator construction.
Ad for Nye incinerators in "Public Works", 1922
https://books.google.com/books?id=vHNKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA42&ots=fbsWdrSN8G&dq=nye%20incinerator&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q=nye%20incinerator&f=false
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://crea...

published: 17 Feb 2015

India and Burma circa 1930

Edited travelogue with narrative titles
"We said farewell to India May 9th when the SS Edevana sailed from Calcutta for Rangoon, Burma"
"Our faithful travel-bearer of the past ten weeks, Dil Mohammed, bedecked us with flowers when the parting came."
Kate wearing a garland on deck with Arthur.
People on shore, Sikh gentleman waving goodbye
Boats at waterfront
"Busy Calcutta waterfront"
Various sorts of boats
"Strange were the craft sighted as the 'Edevana' slowly made her way down the muddy Hoogly River"
HooghlyRiver
"No Diesels or steam engines propel these river craft which the natives 'pole' and 'sweep' along the Hoogly"
Five workers poling a boat, a second shot in which the current moves them swiftly.
"The 'Edvana' carried a large number of native deck passengers"
Pan of the boat deck ...

published: 04 Dec 2012

Original Vintage Bicycle Stunt Men Circa 1930

whisky review 349 - Dunvilles VR Irish Whisky (circa 1930)

. . . a rather rare antique Irish whisky from the 1930s' or earlier ! . . . and a most engaging experience ! Bit of a risk but worth the punt !
To comply with Google Adsense policy this video is an independent non-profit review and is not selling or linking to a site that sells the product being reviewed.

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" Cow walking, with effect appearing to "scratch" her motion in forward and reverse
Cow seen through squares of wire fence, appearing to elongate and shorten as she walks through. Cow walking, seen through mirrored lenses so she appears to slide into nothingness and then reemerge." Inkwell Studios - FilmCirculation Corp. "Alfred Weiss presents...". Dialogue and narration by Allan McDonald.
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion
Slow motion (commonly abbreviated as slowmo) is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was in...

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Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road
Road construction requires the creation of a continuous right-of-way, overcoming geographic obstacles and having grades low enough to permit vehicle or foot travel. and may be required to meet standards set by law or official guidelines. The process is often begun with the removal of earth and rock by digging or blasting, construction of embankments, bridges and tunnels, and removal of vegetation (this may involve deforestation) and followed by the laying of pavement material. A variety of road building equipment is employed in road building.
After design, approval, planning, legal and environmental considerations have been addressed alignment of the road is set out by a surveyor. The radii and gradient are designed and staked out to best suit the natural ground levels and minimize the amount of cut and fill. Great care is taken to preserve reference Benchmarks.
Roads are designed and built for primary use by vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Storm drainage and environmental considerations are a major concern. Erosion and sediment controls are constructed to prevent detrimental effects. Drainage lines are laid with sealed joints in the road easement with runoff coefficients and characteristics adequate for the land zoning and storm water system. Drainage systems must be capable of carrying the ultimate design flow from the upstream catchment with approval for the outfall from the appropriate authority to a watercourse, creek, river or the sea for drainage discharge.
A borrow pit (source for obtaining fill, gravel, and rock) and a water source should be located near or in reasonable distance to the road construction site. Approval from local authorities may be required to draw water or for working (crushing and screening) of materials for construction needs. The top soil and vegetation is removed from the borrow pit and stockpiled for subsequent rehabilitation of the extraction area. Side slopes in the excavation area not steeper than one vertical to two horizontal for safety reasons.
Old road surfaces, fences, and buildings may need to be removed before construction can begin...
Processes during earthwork include excavation, removal of material to spoil, filling, compacting, construction and trimming. If rock or other unsuitable material is discovered it is removed, moisture content is managed and replaced with standard fill compacted to meet the design requirements (generally 90-95% relative compaction). blasting is not frequently used to excavate the road bed as the intact rock structure forms an ideal road base. When a depression must be filled to come up to the road grade the native bed is compacted after the topsoil has been removed. The fill is made by the "compacted layer method" where a layer of fill is spread then compacted to specifications, the process is repeated until the desired grade is reached.
General fill material should be free of organics, meet minimum California bearing ratio (CBR) results and have a low plasticity index. The lower fill generally comprises sand or a sand-rich mixture with fine gravel, which acts as an inhibitor to the growth of plants or other vegetable matter. The compacted fill also serves as lower-stratum drainage. Select second fill (sieved) should be composed of gravel, decomposed rock or broken rock below a specified Particle size and be free of large lumps of clay. Sand clay fill may also be used. The road bed must be "proof rolled" after each layer of fill is compacted. If a roller passes over an area without creating visible deformation or spring the section is deemed to comply.
Geosynthetics such as geotextiles, geogrids and geocells are frequently used in the various pavement layers to improve road quality...
The completed road way is finished by paving or left with a gravel or other natural surface...

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Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road
Road construction requires the creation of a continuous right-of-way, overcoming geographic obstacles and having grades low enough to permit vehicle or foot travel. and may be required to meet standards set by law or official guidelines. The process is often begun with the removal of earth and rock by digging or blasting, construction of embankments, bridges and tunnels, and removal of vegetation (this may involve deforestation) and followed by the laying of pavement material. A variety of road building equipment is employed in road building.
After design, approval, planning, legal and environmental considerations have been addressed alignment of the road is set out by a surveyor. The radii and gradient are designed and staked out to best suit the natural ground levels and minimize the amount of cut and fill. Great care is taken to preserve reference Benchmarks.
Roads are designed and built for primary use by vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Storm drainage and environmental considerations are a major concern. Erosion and sediment controls are constructed to prevent detrimental effects. Drainage lines are laid with sealed joints in the road easement with runoff coefficients and characteristics adequate for the land zoning and storm water system. Drainage systems must be capable of carrying the ultimate design flow from the upstream catchment with approval for the outfall from the appropriate authority to a watercourse, creek, river or the sea for drainage discharge.
A borrow pit (source for obtaining fill, gravel, and rock) and a water source should be located near or in reasonable distance to the road construction site. Approval from local authorities may be required to draw water or for working (crushing and screening) of materials for construction needs. The top soil and vegetation is removed from the borrow pit and stockpiled for subsequent rehabilitation of the extraction area. Side slopes in the excavation area not steeper than one vertical to two horizontal for safety reasons.
Old road surfaces, fences, and buildings may need to be removed before construction can begin...
Processes during earthwork include excavation, removal of material to spoil, filling, compacting, construction and trimming. If rock or other unsuitable material is discovered it is removed, moisture content is managed and replaced with standard fill compacted to meet the design requirements (generally 90-95% relative compaction). blasting is not frequently used to excavate the road bed as the intact rock structure forms an ideal road base. When a depression must be filled to come up to the road grade the native bed is compacted after the topsoil has been removed. The fill is made by the "compacted layer method" where a layer of fill is spread then compacted to specifications, the process is repeated until the desired grade is reached.
General fill material should be free of organics, meet minimum California bearing ratio (CBR) results and have a low plasticity index. The lower fill generally comprises sand or a sand-rich mixture with fine gravel, which acts as an inhibitor to the growth of plants or other vegetable matter. The compacted fill also serves as lower-stratum drainage. Select second fill (sieved) should be composed of gravel, decomposed rock or broken rock below a specified Particle size and be free of large lumps of clay. Sand clay fill may also be used. The road bed must be "proof rolled" after each layer of fill is compacted. If a roller passes over an area without creating visible deformation or spring the section is deemed to comply.
Geosynthetics such as geotextiles, geogrids and geocells are frequently used in the various pavement layers to improve road quality...
The completed road way is finished by paving or left with a gravel or other natural surface...

The oldest osu! liveplay footage (circa 1930)

This video is a preview of what could be part of a future osu!museum, financed by the huge amount of money received from supporter (after buying enough jets of ...

This video is a preview of what could be part of a future osu!museum, financed by the huge amount of money received from supporter (after buying enough jets of course).
The man you see in this video is none other than Daniel Heriberht, most commonly recognized by his pseudonym "peppus".
After creating osu! alpha 0.1 the press didn't believe in his abnormal skills, so he decided to video-tape a liveplay using a typewriter and the first prototype of osu!tablet, which was 100% made out of paper.
With the arrival of WW2 he was forced to stop playing, this was the first occurrence of somebody having to quit because of the army.
He luckily managed to survive after becoming very good friends with Hitler, who decided to then join his game by the name of "Loctavus".
This video is also what we might call the oldest "choke" ever recorded, even though at the time it was referred to as "ending goof".
-
TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/spazza17
Idea based on this: https://youtu.be/OkMTqtOLXO0
Map: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/316390

This video is a preview of what could be part of a future osu!museum, financed by the huge amount of money received from supporter (after buying enough jets of course).
The man you see in this video is none other than Daniel Heriberht, most commonly recognized by his pseudonym "peppus".
After creating osu! alpha 0.1 the press didn't believe in his abnormal skills, so he decided to video-tape a liveplay using a typewriter and the first prototype of osu!tablet, which was 100% made out of paper.
With the arrival of WW2 he was forced to stop playing, this was the first occurrence of somebody having to quit because of the army.
He luckily managed to survive after becoming very good friends with Hitler, who decided to then join his game by the name of "Loctavus".
This video is also what we might call the oldest "choke" ever recorded, even though at the time it was referred to as "ending goof".
-
TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/spazza17
Idea based on this: https://youtu.be/OkMTqtOLXO0
Map: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/316390

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"On disposal of garbage before and after the development of incinerators." Silent. Marketing film for the Nye Odorless Crematory...

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"On disposal of garbage before and after the development of incinerators." Silent. Marketing film for the Nye Odorless Crematory Co., Macon, Georgia. ShowsAtlantic City, New Jersey incinerator construction.
Ad for Nye incinerators in "Public Works", 1922
https://books.google.com/books?id=vHNKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA42&ots=fbsWdrSN8G&dq=nye%20incinerator&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q=nye%20incinerator&f=false
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas, and heat. The ash is mostly formed by the inorganic constituents of the waste, and may take the form of solid lumps or particulates carried by the flue gas. The flue gases must be cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere. In some cases, the heat generated by incineration can be used to generate electric power.
Incineration with energy recovery is one of several waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion. While incineration and gasification technologies are similar in principle, the energy product from incineration is high-temperature heat whereas combustible gas is often the main energy product from gasification. Incineration and gasification may also be implemented without energy and materials recovery.
In several countries, there are still concerns from experts and local communities about the environmental impact of incinerators (see arguments against incineration).
In some countries, incinerators built just a few decades ago often did not include a materials separation to remove hazardous, bulky or recyclable materials before combustion. These facilities tended to risk the health of the plant workers and the local environment due to inadequate levels of gas cleaning and combustion process control. Most of these facilities did not generate electricity.
Incinerators reduce the solid mass of the original waste by 80–85% and the volume (already compressed somewhat in garbage trucks) by 95–96%, depending on composition and degree of recovery of materials such as metals from the ash for recycling. This means that while incineration does not completely replace landfilling, it significantly reduces the necessary volume for disposal. Garbage trucks often reduce the volume of waste in a built-in compressor before delivery to the incinerator. Alternatively, at landfills, the volume of the uncompressed garbage can be reduced by approximately 70% by using a stationary steel compressor, albeit with a significant energy cost. In many countries, simpler waste compaction is a common practice for compaction at landfills.
Incineration has particularly strong benefits for the treatment of certain waste types in niche areas such as clinical wastes and certain hazardous wastes where pathogens and toxins can be destroyed by high temperatures. Examples include chemical multi-product plants with diverse toxic or very toxic wastewater streams, which cannot be routed to a conventional wastewater treatment plant.
Waste combustion is particularly popular in countries such as Japan where land is a scarce resource. Denmark and Sweden have been leaders in using the energy generated from incineration for more than a century, in localised combined heat and power facilities supporting district heating schemes. In 2005, waste incineration produced 4.8% of the electricity consumption and 13.7% of the total domestic heat consumption in Denmark. A number of other European countries rely heavily on incineration for handling municipal waste, in particular Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and France...
The first UK incinerators for waste disposal were built in Nottingham by Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd. in 1874 to a design patented by Albert Fryer. They were originally known as destructors.
The first US incinerator was built in 1885 on Governors Island in New York, NY.
The first facility in the Czech Republic was built in 1905 in Brno...

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"On disposal of garbage before and after the development of incinerators." Silent. Marketing film for the Nye Odorless Crematory Co., Macon, Georgia. ShowsAtlantic City, New Jersey incinerator construction.
Ad for Nye incinerators in "Public Works", 1922
https://books.google.com/books?id=vHNKAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA42&ots=fbsWdrSN8G&dq=nye%20incinerator&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q=nye%20incinerator&f=false
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas, and heat. The ash is mostly formed by the inorganic constituents of the waste, and may take the form of solid lumps or particulates carried by the flue gas. The flue gases must be cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere. In some cases, the heat generated by incineration can be used to generate electric power.
Incineration with energy recovery is one of several waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion. While incineration and gasification technologies are similar in principle, the energy product from incineration is high-temperature heat whereas combustible gas is often the main energy product from gasification. Incineration and gasification may also be implemented without energy and materials recovery.
In several countries, there are still concerns from experts and local communities about the environmental impact of incinerators (see arguments against incineration).
In some countries, incinerators built just a few decades ago often did not include a materials separation to remove hazardous, bulky or recyclable materials before combustion. These facilities tended to risk the health of the plant workers and the local environment due to inadequate levels of gas cleaning and combustion process control. Most of these facilities did not generate electricity.
Incinerators reduce the solid mass of the original waste by 80–85% and the volume (already compressed somewhat in garbage trucks) by 95–96%, depending on composition and degree of recovery of materials such as metals from the ash for recycling. This means that while incineration does not completely replace landfilling, it significantly reduces the necessary volume for disposal. Garbage trucks often reduce the volume of waste in a built-in compressor before delivery to the incinerator. Alternatively, at landfills, the volume of the uncompressed garbage can be reduced by approximately 70% by using a stationary steel compressor, albeit with a significant energy cost. In many countries, simpler waste compaction is a common practice for compaction at landfills.
Incineration has particularly strong benefits for the treatment of certain waste types in niche areas such as clinical wastes and certain hazardous wastes where pathogens and toxins can be destroyed by high temperatures. Examples include chemical multi-product plants with diverse toxic or very toxic wastewater streams, which cannot be routed to a conventional wastewater treatment plant.
Waste combustion is particularly popular in countries such as Japan where land is a scarce resource. Denmark and Sweden have been leaders in using the energy generated from incineration for more than a century, in localised combined heat and power facilities supporting district heating schemes. In 2005, waste incineration produced 4.8% of the electricity consumption and 13.7% of the total domestic heat consumption in Denmark. A number of other European countries rely heavily on incineration for handling municipal waste, in particular Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and France...
The first UK incinerators for waste disposal were built in Nottingham by Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd. in 1874 to a design patented by Albert Fryer. They were originally known as destructors.
The first US incinerator was built in 1885 on Governors Island in New York, NY.
The first facility in the Czech Republic was built in 1905 in Brno...

India and Burma circa 1930

Edited travelogue with narrative titles
"We said farewell to India May 9th when the SS Edevana sailed from Calcutta for Rangoon, Burma"
"Our faithful travel-bea...

Edited travelogue with narrative titles
"We said farewell to India May 9th when the SS Edevana sailed from Calcutta for Rangoon, Burma"
"Our faithful travel-bearer of the past ten weeks, Dil Mohammed, bedecked us with flowers when the parting came."
Kate wearing a garland on deck with Arthur.
People on shore, Sikh gentleman waving goodbye
Boats at waterfront
"Busy Calcutta waterfront"
Various sorts of boats
"Strange were the craft sighted as the 'Edevana' slowly made her way down the muddy Hoogly River"
HooghlyRiver
"No Diesels or steam engines propel these river craft which the natives 'pole' and 'sweep' along the Hoogly"
Five workers poling a boat, a second shot in which the current moves them swiftly.
"The 'Edvana' carried a large number of native deck passengers"
Pan of the boat deck with passengers.
"Out at sea Kate and Mr. CharlesFrancis de Ganahl enjoy deck tennis"
Tennis on-board ship, overexposed.
Steamer from a distance.
Kate with the captain

Edited travelogue with narrative titles
"We said farewell to India May 9th when the SS Edevana sailed from Calcutta for Rangoon, Burma"
"Our faithful travel-bearer of the past ten weeks, Dil Mohammed, bedecked us with flowers when the parting came."
Kate wearing a garland on deck with Arthur.
People on shore, Sikh gentleman waving goodbye
Boats at waterfront
"Busy Calcutta waterfront"
Various sorts of boats
"Strange were the craft sighted as the 'Edevana' slowly made her way down the muddy Hoogly River"
HooghlyRiver
"No Diesels or steam engines propel these river craft which the natives 'pole' and 'sweep' along the Hoogly"
Five workers poling a boat, a second shot in which the current moves them swiftly.
"The 'Edvana' carried a large number of native deck passengers"
Pan of the boat deck with passengers.
"Out at sea Kate and Mr. CharlesFrancis de Ganahl enjoy deck tennis"
Tennis on-board ship, overexposed.
Steamer from a distance.
Kate with the captain

whisky review 349 - Dunvilles VR Irish Whisky (circa 1930)

. . . a rather rare antique Irish whisky from the 1930s' or earlier ! . . . and a most engaging experience ! Bit of a risk but worth the punt !
To comply...

. . . a rather rare antique Irish whisky from the 1930s' or earlier ! . . . and a most engaging experience ! Bit of a risk but worth the punt !
To comply with Google Adsense policy this video is an independent non-profit review and is not selling or linking to a site that sells the product being reviewed.

. . . a rather rare antique Irish whisky from the 1930s' or earlier ! . . . and a most engaging experience ! Bit of a risk but worth the punt !
To comply with Google Adsense policy this video is an independent non-profit review and is not selling or linking to a site that sells the product being reviewed.

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" Cow walking, with effect appearing to "scratch" her motion in forward and reverse
Cow seen through squares of wire fence, appea...

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" Cow walking, with effect appearing to "scratch" her motion in forward and reverse
Cow seen through squares of wire fence, appearing to elongate and shorten as she walks through. Cow walking, seen through mirrored lenses so she appears to slide into nothingness and then reemerge." Inkwell Studios - FilmCirculation Corp. "Alfred Weiss presents...". Dialogue and narration by Allan McDonald.
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion
Slow motion (commonly abbreviated as slowmo) is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was invented by the Austrian priest August Musger.
Typically this style is achieved when each film frame is captured at a rate much faster than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving more slowly. A term for creating slow motion film is overcranking which refers to hand cranking an early camera at a faster rate than normal (i.e. faster than 24 frames per second). Slow motion can also be achieved by playing normally recorded footage at a slower speed. This technique is more often applied to video subjected to instant replay, than to film. A third technique that is becoming common using current computer software post-processing (with programs like Twixtor) is to fabricate digitally interpolated frames to smoothly transition between the frames that were actually shot. Motion can be slowed further by combining techniques, interpolating between overcranked frames. The traditional method for achieving super-slow motion is through high-speed photography, a more sophisticated technique that uses specialized equipment to record fast phenomena, usually for scientific applications.
Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjects of slow motion include:
- Athletic activities of all kinds, to demonstrate skill and style.
- To recapture a key moment in an athletic game, typically shown as a replay.
- Natural phenomena, such as a drop of water hitting a glass.
Slow motion can also be used for artistic effect, to create a romantic or suspenseful aura or to stress a moment in time. Vsevolod Pudovkin, for instance, used slow motion in a suicide scene in The Deserter, in which a man jumping into a river seems sucked down by the slowly splashing waves. Another example is Face/Off, in which John Woo used the same technique in the movements of a flock of flying pigeons. The Matrix made a distinct success in applying the effect into action scenes through the use of multiple cameras, as well as mixing slow-motion with live action in other scenes. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was a pioneer using this technique in his 1954 movieSeven Samurai. American director Sam Peckinpah was another classic lover of the use of slow motion. The technique is especially associated with explosion effect shots and underwater footage.
The opposite of slow motion is fast motion. Cinematographers refer to fast motion as undercranking since it was originally achieved by cranking a handcranked camera slower than normal. It is often used for comic effect, time lapse or occasional stylistic effect.
The concept of slow motion may have existed before the invention of the motion picture: the Japanese theatrical form Noh employs very slow movements...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius. Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen or bullocks) (pulling carts, plows and the like). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some countries, such as India, cattle are sacred. From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, an estimated 1.3 billion cattle are in the world today. In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have a fully mapped genome...

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" Cow walking, with effect appearing to "scratch" her motion in forward and reverse
Cow seen through squares of wire fence, appearing to elongate and shorten as she walks through. Cow walking, seen through mirrored lenses so she appears to slide into nothingness and then reemerge." Inkwell Studios - FilmCirculation Corp. "Alfred Weiss presents...". Dialogue and narration by Allan McDonald.
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion
Slow motion (commonly abbreviated as slowmo) is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was invented by the Austrian priest August Musger.
Typically this style is achieved when each film frame is captured at a rate much faster than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving more slowly. A term for creating slow motion film is overcranking which refers to hand cranking an early camera at a faster rate than normal (i.e. faster than 24 frames per second). Slow motion can also be achieved by playing normally recorded footage at a slower speed. This technique is more often applied to video subjected to instant replay, than to film. A third technique that is becoming common using current computer software post-processing (with programs like Twixtor) is to fabricate digitally interpolated frames to smoothly transition between the frames that were actually shot. Motion can be slowed further by combining techniques, interpolating between overcranked frames. The traditional method for achieving super-slow motion is through high-speed photography, a more sophisticated technique that uses specialized equipment to record fast phenomena, usually for scientific applications.
Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjects of slow motion include:
- Athletic activities of all kinds, to demonstrate skill and style.
- To recapture a key moment in an athletic game, typically shown as a replay.
- Natural phenomena, such as a drop of water hitting a glass.
Slow motion can also be used for artistic effect, to create a romantic or suspenseful aura or to stress a moment in time. Vsevolod Pudovkin, for instance, used slow motion in a suicide scene in The Deserter, in which a man jumping into a river seems sucked down by the slowly splashing waves. Another example is Face/Off, in which John Woo used the same technique in the movements of a flock of flying pigeons. The Matrix made a distinct success in applying the effect into action scenes through the use of multiple cameras, as well as mixing slow-motion with live action in other scenes. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was a pioneer using this technique in his 1954 movieSeven Samurai. American director Sam Peckinpah was another classic lover of the use of slow motion. The technique is especially associated with explosion effect shots and underwater footage.
The opposite of slow motion is fast motion. Cinematographers refer to fast motion as undercranking since it was originally achieved by cranking a handcranked camera slower than normal. It is often used for comic effect, time lapse or occasional stylistic effect.
The concept of slow motion may have existed before the invention of the motion picture: the Japanese theatrical form Noh employs very slow movements...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius. Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen or bullocks) (pulling carts, plows and the like). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some countries, such as India, cattle are sacred. From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, an estimated 1.3 billion cattle are in the world today. In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have a fully mapped genome...

Maintenance of Roads circa 1930 US Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Public Roads

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Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road
Road construction requires the creation of a continuous right-of-way, overcoming geographic obstacles and having grades low enough to permit vehicle or foot travel. and may be required to meet standards set by law or official guidelines. The process is often begun with the removal of earth and rock by digging or blasting, construction of embankments, bridges and tunnels, and removal of vegetation (this may involve deforestation) and followed by the laying of pavement material. A variety of road building equipment is employed in road building.
After design, approval, planning, legal and environmental considerations have been addressed alignment of the road is set out by a surveyor. The radii and gradient are designed and staked out to best suit the natural ground levels and minimize the amount of cut and fill. Great care is taken to preserve reference Benchmarks.
Roads are designed and built for primary use by vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Storm drainage and environmental considerations are a major concern. Erosion and sediment controls are constructed to prevent detrimental effects. Drainage lines are laid with sealed joints in the road easement with runoff coefficients and characteristics adequate for the land zoning and storm water system. Drainage systems must be capable of carrying the ultimate design flow from the upstream catchment with approval for the outfall from the appropriate authority to a watercourse, creek, river or the sea for drainage discharge.
A borrow pit (source for obtaining fill, gravel, and rock) and a water source should be located near or in reasonable distance to the road construction site. Approval from local authorities may be required to draw water or for working (crushing and screening) of materials for construction needs. The top soil and vegetation is removed from the borrow pit and stockpiled for subsequent rehabilitation of the extraction area. Side slopes in the excavation area not steeper than one vertical to two horizontal for safety reasons.
Old road surfaces, fences, and buildings may need to be removed before construction can begin...
Processes during earthwork include excavation, removal of material to spoil, filling, compacting, construction and trimming. If rock or other unsuitable material is discovered it is removed, moisture content is managed and replaced with standard fill compacted to meet the design requirements (generally 90-95% relative compaction). blasting is not frequently used to excavate the road bed as the intact rock structure forms an ideal road base. When a depression must be filled to come up to the road grade the native bed is compacted after the topsoil has been removed. The fill is made by the "compacted layer method" where a layer of fill is spread then compacted to specifications, the process is repeated until the desired grade is reached.
General fill material should be free of organics, meet minimum California bearing ratio (CBR) results and have a low plasticity index. The lower fill generally comprises sand or a sand-rich mixture with fine gravel, which acts as an inhibitor to the growth of plants or other vegetable matter. The compacted fill also serves as lower-stratum drainage. Select second fill (sieved) should be composed of gravel, decomposed rock or broken rock below a specified Particle size and be free of large lumps of clay. Sand clay fill may also be used. The road bed must be "proof rolled" after each layer of fill is compacted. If a roller passes over an area without creating visible deformation or spring the section is deemed to comply.
Geosynthetics such as geotextiles, geogrids and geocells are frequently used in the various pavement layers to improve road quality...
The completed road way is finished by paving or left with a gravel or other natural surface...

The oldest osu! liveplay footage (circa 1930)

This video is a preview of what could be part of a future osu!museum, financed by the huge amount of money received from supporter (after buying enough jets of course).
The man you see in this video is none other than Daniel Heriberht, most commonly recognized by his pseudonym "peppus".
After creating osu! alpha 0.1 the press didn't believe in his abnormal skills, so he decided to video-tape a liveplay using a typewriter and the first prototype of osu!tablet, which was 100% made out of paper.
With the arrival of WW2 he was forced to stop playing, this was the first occurrence of somebody having to quit because of the army.
He luckily managed to survive after becoming very good friends with Hitler, who decided to then join his game by the name of "Loctavus".
This video is also what we might call the oldest "choke" ever recorded, even though at the time it was referred to as "ending goof".
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TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/spazza17
Idea based on this: https://youtu.be/OkMTqtOLXO0
Map: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/316390

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"On disposal of garbage before and after the development of incinerators." Silent. Marketing film for the Nye Odorless Crematory Co., Macon, Georgia. ShowsAtlantic City, New Jersey incinerator construction.
Ad for Nye incinerators in "Public Works", 1922
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Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas, and heat. The ash is mostly formed by the inorganic constituents of the waste, and may take the form of solid lumps or particulates carried by the flue gas. The flue gases must be cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere. In some cases, the heat generated by incineration can be used to generate electric power.
Incineration with energy recovery is one of several waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion. While incineration and gasification technologies are similar in principle, the energy product from incineration is high-temperature heat whereas combustible gas is often the main energy product from gasification. Incineration and gasification may also be implemented without energy and materials recovery.
In several countries, there are still concerns from experts and local communities about the environmental impact of incinerators (see arguments against incineration).
In some countries, incinerators built just a few decades ago often did not include a materials separation to remove hazardous, bulky or recyclable materials before combustion. These facilities tended to risk the health of the plant workers and the local environment due to inadequate levels of gas cleaning and combustion process control. Most of these facilities did not generate electricity.
Incinerators reduce the solid mass of the original waste by 80–85% and the volume (already compressed somewhat in garbage trucks) by 95–96%, depending on composition and degree of recovery of materials such as metals from the ash for recycling. This means that while incineration does not completely replace landfilling, it significantly reduces the necessary volume for disposal. Garbage trucks often reduce the volume of waste in a built-in compressor before delivery to the incinerator. Alternatively, at landfills, the volume of the uncompressed garbage can be reduced by approximately 70% by using a stationary steel compressor, albeit with a significant energy cost. In many countries, simpler waste compaction is a common practice for compaction at landfills.
Incineration has particularly strong benefits for the treatment of certain waste types in niche areas such as clinical wastes and certain hazardous wastes where pathogens and toxins can be destroyed by high temperatures. Examples include chemical multi-product plants with diverse toxic or very toxic wastewater streams, which cannot be routed to a conventional wastewater treatment plant.
Waste combustion is particularly popular in countries such as Japan where land is a scarce resource. Denmark and Sweden have been leaders in using the energy generated from incineration for more than a century, in localised combined heat and power facilities supporting district heating schemes. In 2005, waste incineration produced 4.8% of the electricity consumption and 13.7% of the total domestic heat consumption in Denmark. A number of other European countries rely heavily on incineration for handling municipal waste, in particular Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and France...
The first UK incinerators for waste disposal were built in Nottingham by Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd. in 1874 to a design patented by Albert Fryer. They were originally known as destructors.
The first US incinerator was built in 1885 on Governors Island in New York, NY.
The first facility in the Czech Republic was built in 1905 in Brno...

India and Burma circa 1930

Edited travelogue with narrative titles
"We said farewell to India May 9th when the SS Edevana sailed from Calcutta for Rangoon, Burma"
"Our faithful travel-bearer of the past ten weeks, Dil Mohammed, bedecked us with flowers when the parting came."
Kate wearing a garland on deck with Arthur.
People on shore, Sikh gentleman waving goodbye
Boats at waterfront
"Busy Calcutta waterfront"
Various sorts of boats
"Strange were the craft sighted as the 'Edevana' slowly made her way down the muddy Hoogly River"
HooghlyRiver
"No Diesels or steam engines propel these river craft which the natives 'pole' and 'sweep' along the Hoogly"
Five workers poling a boat, a second shot in which the current moves them swiftly.
"The 'Edvana' carried a large number of native deck passengers"
Pan of the boat deck with passengers.
"Out at sea Kate and Mr. CharlesFrancis de Ganahl enjoy deck tennis"
Tennis on-board ship, overexposed.
Steamer from a distance.
Kate with the captain

whisky review 349 - Dunvilles VR Irish Whisky (circa 1930)

. . . a rather rare antique Irish whisky from the 1930s' or earlier ! . . . and a most engaging experience ! Bit of a risk but worth the punt !
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" Cow walking, with effect appearing to "scratch" her motion in forward and reverse
Cow seen through squares of wire fence, appearing to elongate and shorten as she walks through. Cow walking, seen through mirrored lenses so she appears to slide into nothingness and then reemerge." Inkwell Studios - FilmCirculation Corp. "Alfred Weiss presents...". Dialogue and narration by Allan McDonald.
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion
Slow motion (commonly abbreviated as slowmo) is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was invented by the Austrian priest August Musger.
Typically this style is achieved when each film frame is captured at a rate much faster than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving more slowly. A term for creating slow motion film is overcranking which refers to hand cranking an early camera at a faster rate than normal (i.e. faster than 24 frames per second). Slow motion can also be achieved by playing normally recorded footage at a slower speed. This technique is more often applied to video subjected to instant replay, than to film. A third technique that is becoming common using current computer software post-processing (with programs like Twixtor) is to fabricate digitally interpolated frames to smoothly transition between the frames that were actually shot. Motion can be slowed further by combining techniques, interpolating between overcranked frames. The traditional method for achieving super-slow motion is through high-speed photography, a more sophisticated technique that uses specialized equipment to record fast phenomena, usually for scientific applications.
Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjects of slow motion include:
- Athletic activities of all kinds, to demonstrate skill and style.
- To recapture a key moment in an athletic game, typically shown as a replay.
- Natural phenomena, such as a drop of water hitting a glass.
Slow motion can also be used for artistic effect, to create a romantic or suspenseful aura or to stress a moment in time. Vsevolod Pudovkin, for instance, used slow motion in a suicide scene in The Deserter, in which a man jumping into a river seems sucked down by the slowly splashing waves. Another example is Face/Off, in which John Woo used the same technique in the movements of a flock of flying pigeons. The Matrix made a distinct success in applying the effect into action scenes through the use of multiple cameras, as well as mixing slow-motion with live action in other scenes. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was a pioneer using this technique in his 1954 movieSeven Samurai. American director Sam Peckinpah was another classic lover of the use of slow motion. The technique is especially associated with explosion effect shots and underwater footage.
The opposite of slow motion is fast motion. Cinematographers refer to fast motion as undercranking since it was originally achieved by cranking a handcranked camera slower than normal. It is often used for comic effect, time lapse or occasional stylistic effect.
The concept of slow motion may have existed before the invention of the motion picture: the Japanese theatrical form Noh employs very slow movements...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius. Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals (oxen or bullocks) (pulling carts, plows and the like). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some countries, such as India, cattle are sacred. From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, an estimated 1.3 billion cattle are in the world today. In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have a fully mapped genome...

Origin of the name "Empire State"

The U.S. State of New York has been known by many nicknames, most notably as the Empire State, adopted as late as the 19thcentury. This nickname has been incorporated into the names of several state buildings and events, and is commonly believed to refer to the state's wealth and resources. However, the origin of the term remains unclear.

There are several theories on the origin of the name. Two of them involve George Washington, one credits aggressive trade routes, and another associates the nickname with New York exceeding Virginia in population. None has been proven. One commonly accepted tale says that, when Washington was given a full map of New York prior to the Battle of New York, he remarked on New York's natural geographic advantages, proclaiming New York the "Seat of an Empire".

The origin of the term has puzzled many historians; as American writer Paul Eldridge put it, "Who was the merry wag who crowned the State... [as the Empire State]? New York would certainly raise a monument to his memory, but he made his grandiose gesture and vanished forever."